[ih] Re: IEN 209 missing from IEN index

Craig Partridge craig at bbn.com
Tue Jan 27 09:27:10 PST 2004


Hi Bob:

That's the citation from RFC 823 -- which suggests the IEN existed
(one thing I wondered is whether the IEN number was assigned, but then
the document morphed into RFC 827?).

Craig

In message <200401271647.IAA21847 at gra.isi.edu>, Bob Braden writes:

>
>  *> From rfc-ed at ISI.EDU  Tue Jan 27 06:50:44 2004
>  *> To: rfc-editor at ISI.EDU
>  *> Subject: IEN 209 missing from IEN index
>  *> From: Craig Partridge <craig at bbn.com>
>  *> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:50:33 -0500
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>  *> Hi folks:
>  *> 
>  *> Found an interesting quirk.  IEN 209 is cited in RFC 823, but does not
>  *> appear in the IEN index.
>  *> 
>  *>     Rosen,  E.,  "Exterior  Gateway  Protocol,"  IEN-209,   Bolt
>  *>     Beranek and Newman Inc., August 1982.
>  *> 
>  *> Craig
>  *> 
>
>Craig,
>
>Thanks for the note.  I wonder whether anyone has a copy of 209? We
>don't at ISI.  I seem to recall once having a copy of one of Eric's
>documents about EGP, but I think it was the one where he demolished
>the idea of using EGP as a global routing protocol.  Anyway, it seems
>to have slipped away...
>
I would be glad to update the online IEN index, but first I would like
>some corrobative evidence that this citation is correct.
>
>Bob




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